Home Hardware Peripherals Software Publications Projects A Comparision of Keywords on the BBC Micro (Models A & B),the Acorn Electron and the ZX Spectrum Overview The following is a list of keywords, operators and delimiters used on the BBC ...
... herals such as printers, and compatibility with standard joysticks. The joystick used self-centring microswitched directional controls and provided two independent fire buttons.9 £34.90 9 Joystick, interface and tape £27.90 9 Interface an ...
... peripherals which at the very least would improve the volume and at best would match the quality of microcomputers four or five times as expensive as the ZX Spectrum.The simplest way to improve the sound coming from the Spectrum is to take ...
... assette. Joystick interface built in (Kempston compatible). £29.99*3* +£1.50 postage S-Packby DCP Microdevelopments The S-Pack comes with a vocabulary of 71 word, phrases, numbers and letters. Additional word packs were available on ROM f ...
... 001 Custom Cables International Comes with interface, software and instructions. £10.007 Datapenby Microtechnology Ltd No expansion port. Supplied with software and manual. Pen has indicator which is lit when pointed at light area of scree ...
... EO', 'GRAPHICS', 'EDIT', 'CAPS LOCK', 'BREAK', full stop, comma, cursor controls, inverted comma, semicolon, 'EXTENDED MODE' and 'DELETE'. Upgraded space bar is larger.User guide and companion cassette included.ZX Interface 1 fits outside c ...
... d), but a few of these are typed in character by character. These are called the Integral Functions.Microdrive commands have not been included as these are totally exclusive to the ZX Spectrum and cannot translated to ZX80 BASIC.Reference t ...
... llowing is a list of keywords, operators and delimiters used on the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. These two micros share a common base of keywords so I have listed them together with notes stating differences between how the two machines deal with ...
... ripherals Software Publications Projects Comparison of BASIC Keywords Between ZX Spectrum and Other Microcomputers Most microcomputers of the 1970s and 1980s incorporated BASIC within their operating systems. On these computers BASIC was no ...
... rum so any machine code used within a BASIC program will have to be rewritten.Both the Dragon & TRS micros use a different version of BASIC to the ZX Spectrum. The Dragon 32 & 64 use a version of Microsoft BASIC called Microsoft Extended BA ...
... ite different to the SOUND statement. The AY-3-8912 can also be accessed via OUT statements on both micros but the two micros are not compatible as they both address different ports. Functions Keyword Meaning Comments FREE No operands are r ...
... bles and memory up to and including the address held in the system variable RAMTOP. Similar on both micros. On the Commodore 64 NEW does not clear the screen. On the ZX Spectrum NEW preserves the system variables UDG, P-RAMT, RASP and PIP. ...
... is an upgraded version of the Oric 1 with a new ROM and keyboard.The Oric machines utilise the 6502 microprocessor (The same one the BBC Micro uses).The 6502 uses a completely different instruction set and registers to the Z80 used by the S ...
... mised continued support through new peripherals, including the recently launched ZX Interface 1 and Microdrives. Source: Sinclair User October 1983 Sinclair User Issue 19 reported that Sinclair Spectrum sales had exceeded 500,000. The figur ...
... placed immediately after commands such as LOAD, SAVE, MERGE, VERIFY and CAT commands much like the Microdrive commands had an asterisk (*) in immediately after them. This method of accessing the silicon disc was continued when Amstrad purc ...
... h filename f$ from tape into memory deleting any array with the same name. Although the ZX80 & ZX81 micros cannot load individual arrays, by design they will load all variables that were saved with a program, including any arrays which may ...
... rice of £30 but does not specify whether this includes VAT or postage and packing. Datapen Datapen Microtechnology Ltd The Datapen light pen, produced by Datapen Microtechnology Limited, is a self-contained input device for the ZX Spectrum ...
... additional RAM. The system was similar in concept to the facilities provided by the Interface 1 and Microdrive, but the Silicon Disc was entirely electronic and therefore considerably faster than cassette or Microdrive storage. The Silicon ...
... ctrum Overview The following is a list of keywords, operators and delimiters used on the Acorn Atom microcomputer and the ZX Spectrum.Released in 1980, two years before the Spectrum, the Acorn Atom used a version of BASIC based on an earlie ...
... eem and where possible I have included in the right-hand column short conversion code for whichever micro requires it.The QL comes complete with two microdrive units built in, these are similar to the ZX units but differ in they format they ...